Our special issue of the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social (co-edited by Virginia Abdala and me) on the evolution of joints in vertebrates is out now — check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...

IOB "In #odontocete #cetaceans (toothed #whales, #dolphins, and #porpoises), a #palatopharyngeal sphincter permanently anchors the laryngeal inlet in the #nasopharynx and isolates the airway from the gut tube." from A W Vogl , et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #biology #biomechanics

New paper out in @pnas.org led by Marine Cazenave shows different locomotor repertoires in Swartkrans Paranthropus and Sterkfontein Australopithecus! www.mpg.de/26471037/swa...

Swartkrans Paranthropus and Sterkfontein Australopithecus  had different locomotor repertoires

Paranthropus robustus from southern Africa combined upright walking and more frequent climbing than the older Australopithecus in the same region

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WE’RE BAAAAACK!🥼🧬🧠🫀 #anatomy26 #annualmeeting #anatomy #albuquerque #anatomyconnected26

We hope to see everyone at Anatomy Connected 2026 aka the BEST Anatomy meeting! 🥼🧬🧠🫀 #anatomy26 #annualmeeting #anatomy #albuquerque #anatomyconnected2026

I love the bony labyrinth and so should you lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/04/09/t...

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

Out today in @pnasnexus.org! We present evidence for a new way to characterize the vestibular organs, challenging traditional assumptions about how the human inner ear is organized.🧵 1/5 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Evolutionary modularity of the primate vestibular system: Morphological distinction of otolithic and canalicular organs

Abstract. The mammalian inner ear is traditionally divided into two systems: the peripheral vestibular system (for balance) and the cochlea (for hearing).

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🚨Science news! Recent research led by Meghan Forcellati, a comparative biology Ph.D. student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, has uncovered new clues about reptile evolution by studying the bony encasements of the inner ears of living lizards and snakes.

Bony Inner Ears Offer Clues to Lizard Evolution | AMNH

Scientists hoping to reconstruct how extinct lizards and snakes lived have turned their attention to the inner ear.

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📢 Call for Papers! We invite submissions for special issue “Development, Evolution, and Comparative Anatomy of the Larynx.” This issue aims to highlight interdisciplinary work exploring the development, evolution, and structure–function relationships of the larynx across species. 📅 Deadline: Sep 15

I'm happy to present our paper in which we describe hominin postcrania from Drimolen. Many of these specimens sat in a drawer at Wits Uni for > 20 years. It's amusing to me that the image here includes two fossils in that drawer that were labeled "hominin" but that we decided are not! 1/

The Anatomical Record@anatrecord.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Postcranial fossils from the site of Drimolen in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa provide further insights into hominin paleobiology at approximately 2.0 million years ago! New study by Caley M. Orr et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am really excited to share news of this new jaw...until now Paranthropus had been conspicuously absent from the Afar. Fieldwork at Mille-Logya is not easy, and this fossil is the result of years of very hard work (and a lot of days of dry screening by our team)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus - Nature

With its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in east...

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This is great. It's not as in depth as the suggestions here, but at my JC in grad school we always asked two questions at the end: "What is the most valuable thing we can take from this paper?" and "What's the next step we would take related to that most valuable thing?" It was fantastic.

Stephen Heard@stephenbheard.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Just finished this awesome new-ish book by @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social on animal communication. It covers a lot of ground with a huge diversity of species—& it's a blast to read! Great for those interested in sensory ecology. (I had skulls of all the cover animals, so I snapped a photo! 😃)

Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖

New craniodentally associated P. boisei post crania! ✋ 🦶 from Koobi Fora 🔥 Congrats to carriemongle.bsky.social caleyorr.bsky.social et al!

Caley Orr@caleyorr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/

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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds

Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.

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Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️ If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us... youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...

Wounda's Journey - Jane Goodall Witnesses Release of Chimpanzee Into New Island Sanctuary Site

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

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Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

Alana Sharp@acsharp.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Grateful to Dr. Jasmine Pan and @commsbio.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my journey of using art as a gateway into science. It was a pleasure to discuss how creativity can shape and enhance scientific exploration! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

From medical illustration to evolutionary anatomy: Christopher Smith’s artistic approach to science - Communications Biology

In this Q&A, Christopher Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses his journey from medical illustration to evolutionary anatomy, emphasizing how artistic ski...

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I'm excited to share that next fall, I'll be joining the faculty at Fairfield U as an Asst Prof in Biology! 🦌 I'm deeply grateful for my time at the AMNH and as part of the Bio Anth Lab. I look forward to continuing and expanding on these collaborations in this next chapter! 💀👂🧠

Check out this month's Editor's Choice author interview featuring @jordynneal.bsky.social and Dr. Allison Bronson: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/editors-... Read more about their exciting research on shark skeletal labyrinths here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our 3D scans of the ~2.0 million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) publicly available at this link. Species is most likely Paranthropus robustus. Please use scans & cite Berg et al (2025). #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪 human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...

New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/ #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪

@sajournalofscience.bsky.social · last yr.

Analysis of an understudied 2-million-year-old fossil pelvis from the site of Drimolen, South Africa provides additional insights into the anatomy of early human relatives. doi.org/10.17159/saj... @caleyorr.bsky.social @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social

Excellent opportunity for any students interested in ear evolution! 👇👇

@a-urciuoli.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44

New paper is out! We used microCT to reanalyze the partial cranium of Plesiolestes nacimienti - the oldest plesiadapiform cranium currently known! @purgatoriidae.bsky.social nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New paper co-led by Maddy Lang and myself, providing the most comprehensive analysis of the evolution of olfactory bulb size in living and fossil euarchontoglirans. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

But how does it smell? An investigation of olfactory bulb size among living and fossil primates and other euarchontoglirans

Analysis of cranial endocast data of 181 extant and 41 fossil species from Euarchontoglires shows that there was a reduction in olfactory bulb size in Crown Primates, but that there were also subsequ...

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Fascinating new research from @a-urciuoli.bsky.social using the inner ear to dig deep into Neanderthal evolution. Check it out!!

@a-urciuoli.bsky.social · last yr.

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... 🏺🧪🦣 #paleoanthropology

New paper alert! Kimi_Chapelle, lab PI Chris Griffin, and Diego Pol try our best to review everything we know about dinosaur ontogeny and reproduction in under 2k words in an invited contribution to Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny | Biology Letters

Since the start of the twenty-first century, there has been a notable increase in annual publications focusing on dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny with researchers using these data to address a rang...

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